Higher Castleshaw Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Higher Castleshaw Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-loggia-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth MP: Debbie Abrahams (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Castleshaw Farmhouse, Saddleworth, OL3 5LY
- OS grid reference
- SE 001 094
- Coordinates
- 53.58185, -1.99848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Castleshaw Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 18th century. It is built of dressed stone and hammer-dressed watershot stone, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. The building has three bays and two storeys, with two early additional wings at the rear. The right side features quoins.
The central door has a square-cut surround and pulvinated impost blocks, flanked by a small window on each side, also with square-cut surrounds. To the left, there is a 6-light window with a blocked fire-window to the extreme left. On the right, a 6-light window has been heightened in the 20th century. The first floor has three 3-light windows, all with recessed cavetto-moulded mullion windows. The gables are coped, and there are gable chimney stacks.
At the rear, the gabled wings contain three 2-light and one 3-light cavetto-moulded mullion window, along with a door that has a dressed surround. There is also a blocked arched light and 2 and 3-light gable windows, the latter dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Higher Castleshaw Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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